Find me one good housing story in this country. One.
the good news is that there does seem to be a growing sense of momentum behind leasehold reform… unfortunately it’ll probably take until the next government to actually do anything (ground rent changes are only a start). But there’s a lot of money being made by those with the power when it comes to leasehold, the lobbying will be very intense.
“The couple’s section 20 notice showed the council wanted to charge them £30,591.46 to supply and fit “keep shut” signs to store doors and lift lobbies as part of “fire safety works”, however, the block they live in does not have any lifts, she says”!
> “astronomical” bills of up to £100,000 per flat to remove scaffolding that has been up for five years.
Other than the fact that this figure also includes refurbishing, it really doesn’t cost that much to take down scaffolding.
*checks google maps*
I could have that removed overnight with 5 men and a lorry.
How much do we think it would cost to take down that scaffolding.
Total no more than £5k, surely.
That should be a few hundred per flat
Entirely insane. Property stories are a series of rogue landlords and contractors getting away with murder (sometimes literally) and leaseholders having to pay to clean up their mess. You can see why developers are such big donors to the Tories- the injustice is obvious, but these people get away with it time and time again.
id be tempted to balaclava up and take it apart myself, would be easier than finding the money
This sounds like corruption. It might be incompetence. Even in these older council blocks that have been part sold off should have some form of resident involvement in the management of the building when it comes to costly repairs. I do hope it’s just housing department incompetence but I know of a few stories where corruption has heaped outrageous costs onto renewal of buildings.
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Find me one good housing story in this country. One.
the good news is that there does seem to be a growing sense of momentum behind leasehold reform… unfortunately it’ll probably take until the next government to actually do anything (ground rent changes are only a start). But there’s a lot of money being made by those with the power when it comes to leasehold, the lobbying will be very intense.
“The couple’s section 20 notice showed the council wanted to charge them £30,591.46 to supply and fit “keep shut” signs to store doors and lift lobbies as part of “fire safety works”, however, the block they live in does not have any lifts, she says”!
> “astronomical” bills of up to £100,000 per flat to remove scaffolding that has been up for five years.
Other than the fact that this figure also includes refurbishing, it really doesn’t cost that much to take down scaffolding.
*checks google maps*
I could have that removed overnight with 5 men and a lorry.
How much do we think it would cost to take down that scaffolding.
Total no more than £5k, surely.
That should be a few hundred per flat
Entirely insane. Property stories are a series of rogue landlords and contractors getting away with murder (sometimes literally) and leaseholders having to pay to clean up their mess. You can see why developers are such big donors to the Tories- the injustice is obvious, but these people get away with it time and time again.
id be tempted to balaclava up and take it apart myself, would be easier than finding the money
This sounds like corruption. It might be incompetence. Even in these older council blocks that have been part sold off should have some form of resident involvement in the management of the building when it comes to costly repairs. I do hope it’s just housing department incompetence but I know of a few stories where corruption has heaped outrageous costs onto renewal of buildings.
UK Housing is just next level….
Don’t buy stolen property.